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The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King: and the struggle against apartheid
by JONAS
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004 at 3:41 AM
Come hear local Pittsburghers discuss "The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King: and the struggle against apartheid �from Birmingham to Johannesburg to Jerusalem"
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"The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King: and the struggle against apartheid �from Birmingham to Johannesburg to Jerusalem"
Presentation & Discussion
Speakers include:
Dennis Brutus, South African activist and poet
Kate Daher, Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee
Friday, January 23, 2003
7 PM
Monumental Baptist Church
2240 Wiley Avenue, Pittsburgh
Sponsors: Monumental Baptist Church,
Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee
OPTICS (Organizing Pittsburgh to Increase Community Solidarity)
Israel's Apartheid Wall
by JONAS
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004 at 3:41 AM
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"Apartheid: 1. An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
2. A policy or practice of separating or segregating groups.
3. The condition of being separated from others; segregation."
Apartheid is making it's way throughout Palestine, reaching from the far corners of the West Bank to Jerusalem to Gaza Strip.
mass transit info?
by bugg
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004 at 10:54 AM
Any idea what mass transit lines go near there?
Response to Mass Transit
by JONAS
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004 at 11:20 AM
jonaskillet@aol.com
The 81 A, 81 B and 81 C go through the Hill District, which I believe you can catch downtown on 5th Ave or Liberty. http://www.portauthority.org will give u a map-- just highlight "hill district" in the space provided. You can email me if you are coming from outside of town and Ill try to help you find a more efficient path.
Jonas
APARTHEID IN ARIZONA
by Matthew Rick
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004 at 4:38 PM
APARTHEID IN ARIZONA
On the Forced Relocation at the Big Mountain Reservation
by Matthew Rick
"It's about time to be interested in Indians again." Vine Deloria, Jr., a prominent Native American author, said in a 1990 interview with Robert Allen Warrior of The Progressive magazine. Within the year his prediction became prophecy as thousands of people rushed to cinemas and video stores across the United States to see the box-office smash Dances With Wolves. More recently, Robert Redford directed the documentary Incident at Oglala recounting events on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation leading to the deaths of an American Indian Movement activist and two FBI agents and the eventual incarceration of AIM activist Leonard Peltier. The movie had far less Hollywood glitz than Kevin Costner's box-office smash, and went largely unnoticed by the movie viewing public. Nevertheless, it was a sobering account of present U.S. Indian affairs and a glaring example of what the United States' system of justice can mean to its indigenous populations.
To many United States citizens, the systematic genocide of Native American populations is a tragic chapter in our history that has come to an end. Yet even now, on a reservation in Arizona, Native Americans are being denied their traditional religious practices, are regularly harassed by low flying jets, and have been told that they must leave their families' homelands. This is the situation at Big Mountain and it has grown out of more than a century of bad policy making, racism and greed within the United States government.
www.ulster.net/~shady/bmount.html
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